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New Collaboration between Helen Davison and Amanda Hunt

amanda — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:05:59 +0000

Here’s a new collaboration between Helen Davison and Amanda Hunt – it’s called “London by Night”.

Helen painted the background in acrylics and ink and then sent the canvas to me. I then added the foreground layer in acrylics. This is a unique way of working with no communication between the artists, each adding their own character and inspiration to the painting. The end result is a truly distinctive piece of art.

I really enjoyed the challenge of this piece as the colours Helen chose for the background are unlike anything I would normally use. It made me think a little differently and I am really pleased with the result.

Mini Art Show

Aitch — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:44:18 +0000

I have recently entered 7 paintings for the 2nd Mini Art Show to be held at the South Street Gallery in Scarborough. I created 4 new ones for the exhibition and entered the 3 that I had entered in the first one also. The exhibition runs from February 17th to April 3rd.

Here’s a couple of the new ones I’ve created:

Celestial

Ruby

New Artwork

amanda — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:40:10 +0000

Thought I’d share with you a picture of my newest painting – Japanese Blossom.
I love chinese and japanese artwork with garden flowers and cherry blossom and was inspired to try a variation of my own. I was also thinking ahead to Spring (wishful thinking maybe!) when there is always a fantastic display of cherry blossom all down my road. The first true sign that spring has arrived and summer is on it’s way. Not long to wait now!

Ferens Open Exhibition

Aitch — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:47:44 +0000

This morning I dropped off two paintings for the annual Ferens Art Gallery’s Open Exhibition, which takes place from Saturday 12th February until Sunday 3rd April 2011. I have entered a few times in the past without success, but I have positive feelings this time – I am entering “3 Wise Men An An Interloper” and “Red Rocks”. Both paintings are an acrylic/ink media on canvas board and are mounted and framed. I entered them successfully for the East Yorkshire Open Art Exhibition last July so decided to use them again.

I will find out if I have been successful on 4th February, so fingers crossed!

Red Rocks

3 Wise Men And And Interloper

60th Haltemprice Art Exhibition

Aitch — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:35:14 +0000

Time sure flies – I can’t believe it’s already time to start thinking about my entries for the annual Haltemprice Art Exhibition. I never know whether to take a couple of smaller paintings, in the hope of selling them – or a couple of really large ones that just show off my work more due to the very nature of them being large! Hmm…. any ideas, anyone?I haven’t created any new paintings since my small “Giza Look” just before summer, as I’ve been concentrating on decorative notebooks, magnetic notepads and hand-made cards to sell at local events and on my Etsy shop.

So, it could be a really large one such as “Watching Paint Dry” (which is 76 x 50cm)

Watching Paint Dry

Or a smaller one, such as Marooned (which is 35 x 35cm framed)

Marooned

Alternatively, I could go for a theme – such as floral, and have “Anniversary Flowers” and “Golden Daffodil” as my entries, or have a musical theme and use my “Violin- Dedicated to Daniel” along with “Fine Tuning”. Hmmm, decisions, decisions! Any ideas, anyone? Entries have to be in on October 18th….so thinking caps on please!

Holderness Art Show

Aitch — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:48:51 +0000

Well, I’ve delivered my two entries for the Holderness Art Show 2010 – I opted for an acrylic abstract painting (Cool Sticks) and a pastel drawing (Violin – Dedicated To Daniel) as they are both framed and were hanging in the house within easy reach! The exhibition is being held at St Peters and St Pauls Church in Burton Pidsea, East Yorkshire, and is open on 11th September for the preview (tickets only) then on Sunday 12th September 10.30am to 4.30pm.

There are about 70 entries for this exhibition so it should be quite varied and I look forward to seeing the other items on display. It’s the first time I’ve entered this particular exhibition but as I am trying to enter as many local shows as possible, I didn’t want to miss out.

Cool Sticks, Acrylic on board.

Violin - Dedicated To Daniel (pastel)

East Yorkshire Open Art Exhibition

Aitch — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:48:37 +0000

This morning I finally managed to get to the exhibition at Sewerby Hall, Bridlington, where two of my paintings have been hanging since July 3rd. I was chuffed that my pieces were chosen, since it was the first time I’ve entered this particular exhibition. I really thought that today was my last chance for viewing, but when I got there, the date of the exhibition is displayed as 3rd July to 31st August, not the 29th (as I had on my entry form). Anyhow, I managed to get a photo of my two paintings in situ – there were quite a variety of artworks on show and it was worth the trip. I spotted quite a few pieces from fellow East Riding Artists members, including a couple of new acrylic paintings by Peter Schoenecker, whose work I have always liked.

I didn’t like to take any more photos since it was fairly busy, with it being a Bank Holiday weekend – the painting you can see next to my two is called Manhattan Sunset, painted in acrylic by an Lesley Webb – I’ve not heard of her before.

As well as the exhibition, which was situated upstairs in the West Wing (several rooms, actually), there were lots of other artworks on display (some of which were temporary and others permanent) along with a museum, a room dedicated to Amy Johnson and lots of rooms full of antique furniture etc. The grounds were full also today – there was a vintage (or was it classic??) car show and a display of jousting by some people who re-enact certain periods in history – not my cup of tea at all, but obviously very popular.

My favourite view of the day was the following snaps I took of some llamas that are resident within the gardens of the Hall:

Mixed media painting by Aitch

Aitch — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:46:08 +0000

I have recently finished another small painting using mixed media, ready to take to the Burton Constable Country Fair in July. Having built up a supply of mini canvas and easel paintings, I am also hoping to take a fair few smaller sized paintings from my existing stock as well as create some new ones.

Painted all over with a metallic blue acrylic paint, I then glued some metallic blue cord in a spiral shape and filled each segment with various beads and dots of acrylic white paint. It was only when I’d uploaded it and was varnishing it, however, that I noticed it bears a resemblance to a collaboration painting done by fellow RGC artists Kosana Marton and Andrea Farmer. I must have had the image of their painting in my sub-conscious mind for ages without realising it!

Here is my latest creation, “Mutable Cell I”. It is 7 x 5 inches.

I think it rather resembles “Sensuality” -which can be seen here on the RGC website. Although that was not my intention as I started creating this piece, it shows what an impact art has on you whether you are aware of it or not.